Tracy Hogg

Tracy Hogg (1960 to 2004) was a British nurse and bestselling author who became known as the baby whisperer. Her experiences as a nurse at St. Catherine's Hospital for the Mentally Handicapped and other hospitals led to a career as a child care expert, and she was said to calm colicky infants with unusual skill. She emigrated to the United States in 1992 and guided young parents in California. Her first book, Secrets of the Baby Whisperer, written with the journalist Melinda Blau, was published in 2001 and became a New York Times bestseller; a toddler volume followed in 2002 and The Baby Whisperer Solves All Your Problems in 2004. In 2002 she made a fifteen part television series with Discovery Health in Great Britain. She died of melanoma on 25 November 2004 in her native Doncaster, England, aged 44.